Upcoming Pixar, courtsey The Blue Sky Disney Blog, shares a link to a podcast interview with the director of Pixar’s short film Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, wherein he chats about the short, Pixar, animation and FX. The official description of the KBOO.FM interview says, “Academy Award-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom recently jumped into the director’s chair to create the animated short Lifted for Pixar. Gary hosted a screening at this summer’s Platform Animation Festival in Portland, and has plenty of stories about finding soundtrack material in the strangest of places”.